Verse

n.	1.	A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
	2.	Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry. Such prompt eloquence Flowed from their lips in prose or numerous verse. - Milton. Virtue was taught in verse. - Prior. Verse embalms virtue. - Donne.
	3.	A short division of any composition.
	4.	A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.
	4.	A piece of poetry. Blank verse poetry in which the lines do not end in rhymes. Heroic verse See under Heroic.
	5.	(Script.) One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.
	6.	(Mus.) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
v. t.	1.	To tell in verse, or poetry. [imp. & p. p. Versed (vẽrst); p. pr. & vb. n. Versing.] Playing on pipes of corn and versing love. - Shak.
v. i.	1.	To make verses; to versify. It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet. - Sir P. Sidney.

Noun	1.	verse - literature in metrical form Synonyms: poesy, poetry
	2.	verse - a piece of poetry Synonyms: rhyme
	3.	verse - a line of metrical text Synonyms: verse line
Verb	1.	verse - compose verses or put into verse; "He versified the ancient saga" Synonyms: poetise, poetize, versify
	2.	verse - familiarize through thorough study or experience; "She versed herself in Roman archeology"

English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, Spenserian stanza, acquaint, adage, advertise, advertise of, advise, alba, ana, anacreontic, anacrusis, analects, antistrophe, aphorism, apothegm, apprise, article, avant-propos, axiom, back matter, balada, ballad, ballade, bass passage, book, bourdon, breakthrough, bridge, brief, bring word, bucolic, burden, byword, cadence, canso, canto, catchword, chanson, chapter, chorus, clause, clerihew, climb Parnassus, coda, collected sayings, column, communicate, compose poetry, couplet, current saying, development, dictate, dictum, dirge, disclose, distich, dithyramb, division, eclogue, elegize, elegy, enlighten, envoi, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, exordium, exposition, expression, familiarize, fascicle, figure, folderol, folio, foreword, front matter, frontispiece, gathering, georgic, ghazel, give notice, give the facts, give word, gnome, golden saying, haiku, harmonic close, heptastich, hexastich, idyll, inform, innovation, installment, instruct, interlude, intermezzo, introduction, introductory phrase, jingle, lay, leap, leave word, let know, limerick, line, lisp in numbers, livraison, lyric, madrigal, make immortal verse, maxim, measure, mention to, monody, monostich, moral, mot, motto, mount Pegasus, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, musical thought, narrative poem, notify, number, nursery rhyme, octastich, octave, octet, ode, oracle, ornament, ottava rima, overture, page, palinode, paragraph, part, passage, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, pentastich, period, phrase, pithy saying, poem, poesy, poetize, poetry, postulate, preamble, precept, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminary, prelude, premise, prescript, presupposition, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, prologue, protasis, prothalamium, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, quatrain, refrain, report, resolution, response, rhyme, rhyme royal, ritornello, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, rune, satire, saw, saying, section, send word, sentence, sententious expression, septet, serial, serve notice, sestet, sestina, sextet, sheet, signature, sing, sing deathless songs, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, speak, stanza, statement, stave, stock saying, strain, strophe, sutra, syllable, tailpiece, tanka, teaching, tell, tenso, tenzone, tercet, terza rima, tetrastich, text, the supreme fiction, threnody, triolet, triplet, tristich, troubadour poem, tutti, tutti passage, variation, verselet, versicle, versify, villanelle, virelay, volume, voluntary, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom, write poetry

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